Works on Paper:
Prints, Drawings, and Photographs

Selections of nearly 100 works on paper are on view at any time in at least four galleries. The collections encompass more than 4,000 prints, 2,000 drawings, and 3,500 photographs. Works on paper are especially sensitive to damage from light and thus are only on view for a few months.

The print collection includes examples of techniques from woodcut, intaglio, and lithography to monotype. The range is from the late 15th century, with woodcuts by Albrecht Dürer to contemporary silkscreen prints by Andy Warhol.  The main strength lies in the late 18th and early 19th century with works by Francisco Goya, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, and Thomas Rowlandson representing the late 18th century and Théodore Gericault and Richard Parkes Bonington contributing highlights of early 19th-century lithography.

The drawing collection also includes a range of works from the 16th century to the present,   including Venetian 18th-century studies by both Giovanni Battista Tiepolo and his son, Giovanni Domenico, as well as by Francesco Guardi.  English drawings range from examples by Thomas Gainsborough and John Constable to watercolors by William Turner and others. 

The photography collection contains a unique representation of some 500 works by Eadweard Muybridge, who worked for Leland Stanford.  Also included in the photography collection are rare early examples by Henry Fox Talbot and Julia Margaret Cameron, as well as other 19th -century notables.  In the 20th century Ansel Adams and Robert Frank are each represented by more than 100 works.

Betsy G. Fryberger
Burton and Deedee McMurtry Curator of Prints and Drawings  



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